« Reply #757 on: 18 June 2019, 16:48 »
It reminds me of the GTI Pirelli, despite the huge popularity of the Mk5 GTI and even more so the Ed30 (its sister under the skin) the Pirelli just didn’t sell. There were a good few booted out to dealers just before the mk6’s hit the showrooms (and their loooong build waits) with the instructions to pre register them. Which brings me on to the Ed40 that suffered a similar fate. Hardly anyone ordered one as they were identically priced to an R with less attractive deals on them, and so the remaining stock were shoved out to dealers with the instructions of pre-register and don’t discount too much (or so I was told by numerous sales execs) to tide over until the facelifted cars came properly on stream.
It’ll be interesting to see if VW do an official promotion to shift the last of the 7.5’s in the lead up to the final build slots like they did the 7 or whether there is still sufficient interest to keep sales flowing (bearing in mind the huge stall in car supply with WLTP causing a backlog) until the factory switches off production.
The last TCR’s will likely be just like the GTI Pirelli, less tech and very slightly outmoded by the incoming new model but a great car in its own right with lots of unique touches.
Somewhere in the middle of all that I neglected the Ed35.
Everyone neglected the poor Ed35!
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